Texts
Lebor gabála Érenn (Ó Cléirigh)
Incoming data
A modern version of Lebor gabála Érenn, revised by Micheál Ó Cléirigh and his associates in 1631.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 32
In the hand of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 70
autograph manuscript of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh; incomplete
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] [tr.] Macalister, R. A. S., and John Mac Neill, Leabhar Gabhála: the book of conquests of Ireland. The recension of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, vol. 1, Dublin, 1916.
comments: Unfinished, as no further volumes have been forthcoming.
Internet Archive: <link>
Edition, with translation, based on 23 K 32. It is left incomplete.
Secondary sources (select)
Flahive, Joseph J., “Macalister and the Ó Cleirigh Leabhar Gabhála”, in: John Carey (ed.), Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009. 76–93.
Carey, John (ed.), Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series, 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009.
Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text”, Ériu 38 (1987): 79–140.
comments: The second part is Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II”, Ériu 39 (1988).
Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988): 1–66.
comments: This article continues Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I”, Ériu 38 (1987).
